In November 2009 Atiya's father told Gemma that he was taking their then three-year-old daughter on a visit to Southport. But instead Razwan Ali Anjum boarded a plane to Lahore, Pakistan and left her there.

He is currently in prison after refusing to tell Gemma or the British police where his daughter was being kept, instead telling the High Court that Ms Wilkinson was "never going to see Atiya again".

"Its been an absolute nightmare not knowing, just imagining things and trying to think of, think of what's happened because nobody knew anything and nobody would say anything," Gemma said.